Original Message From: "dave"
> I would like to restrict the validation only to part
> of my XML schema. I do not want to validate anything
> under certain Element, say 'noValidation'. This
> element in turn contains an XML(which is WellFormed
> but not Valid) for which there is no schema for
> whatever reason. But I would want to parse the XML
> under 'noValidation' element.
>
> Here're my questions:
> 1. How would I specify in the Schema that
> 'noValidation' element should not get validated? Is
> using ANY a valid use case in this situation although
> it's not used for Schema extension purpose here? CDATA
> may not be a good choice because I would NOT be able
> to parse anything under 'noValidation'.
>From an XSD point of view, xs:any should be fine, perhaps nested within an
element. e.g.
<xs:element name='nonValidated'>
<xs:complexType><xs:sequence>
<xs:any namespace='##any' processContents='skip'
minOccurs/maxOccurs etc. />
</xs:sequence>...
The fact that it is not being used as an extension is not an issue. For
example, one use-case of this sort of thing is including chunks of XHTML
within an XML file.
HTH,
Pete Cordell
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